9/5/2023 0 Comments French twist![]() They find her working as a DJ in a lesbian dance club. She insists that she and Laurent go to Paris and contact Marie-Jo. Then Loli hears from a mutual acquaintance that Marie-Jo is living in Paris and is several months pregnant. Laurent and Loli settle back down to their old life, but their relationship has been deeply affected. Laurent tells Loli nothing, as agreed with Marie-Jo. Laurent has sex with Marie-Jo to get her pregnant, and Marie-Jo departs before Loli returns. She will break up with Loli and leave immediately, if Laurent will give her something she has wanted for years: a baby. While Loli is away on a trip, Marie-Jo makes a deal with Laurent. She knows that Laurent wants her to leave. Marie-Jo decides that the situation is not really going to work. Laurent welcomes them, but Loli becomes annoyed and jealous. But his strategy has its effect, especially after another lesbian couple, old friends of Marie-Jo, happen by. Laurent agrees, and the household becomes a seemingly idyllic ménage à trois. Marie-Jo moves into the house.Īntoine then suggests that Laurent let Loli have her way, cease all hostility, and wait for the affair to burn out. Laurent is upset, but then his friend Antoine ( Ticky Holgado) accidentally reveals Laurent's philandering to Loli. Loli has a blocked sink, so in exchange for using the phone, Marie-Jo gets Loli's drain back in working order. The driver is Marie-Jo ( Josiane Balasko), a 40s-ish butch lesbian who works as a DJ. Then one day, a campervan breaks down in front of their house. Loli is unaware that her husband is unfaithful. He is an estate agent she is a housewife. Laurent ( Alain Chabat) and Loli ( Victoria Abril) are a thirty-ish married couple living in southern France with their young children. The film was selected as the French entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 68th Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee. It also refers to the shaving (or not) of pubic hair, a subtle joke in French alluding to the subject matter of the film. Its title in French is untranslatable but 'Cursed Lawn' is a close approximation. The film was one of very few French films to have a dubbed version for English audiences. It was written and directed by Josiane Balasko. I gave a rating of 6 because it's not a masterpiece.French Twist ( French: Gazon maudit) is a cult 1995 French comedy film. We know that the situations are implausible (a nice married woman falls in love at first glance with a butch-lesbian-truck-driver, who will have a baby with her husband) but the characters are funny enough to forget minor errors in the script and you will enjoy the way of cross that the unfaithful husband (Alain Chabat) will have to go through. No big laughs, but a good story and brilliant acting. I find much more vulgarity in, mmmh, let's say, the "American Pie" pictures - even if they don't show nudity - than in Gazon Maudit. OK, this picture is about sex, lesbians, homosexuality and triolism, we can see a few times Victoria Abril half or totally naked and Josiane Balasko smokes a lot of pot, but it is basically a comedy with no real provocation. I saw this movie at 20:30 PM, on Sunday evening, on the main TV french channel, and I don't remember any scandal for this (and we have our share of intolerant bigots in France too.). I am surprised to see that Gazon Maudit was rated R and 18 in most countries. I read the user comment for this film, my point of view is quite different : 1.
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